PUBLIC LAW 102-550—OCT. 28, 1992

106 STAT. 3897

(b) EFFECTIVE DATE OF REGULATIONS.—Section 269(aX2) of the
Truth in Savings Act (12 U.S.C. 4308(aX2)) is amended by striking
"6 months" and inserting "9 months".

TITLE X—RESIDENTIAL LEAD-BASED
PAINT HAZARD REDUCTION ACT OF
1992

Residential
Lead-Based
Paint Hazard
Reduction Act of
1992.

SEC. 1001. SHORT TITLE.

This title may be cited as the "Residential Lead-Based Paint
Hazard Reduction Act of 1992".

SEC. 1002. FINDINGS.

The Congress finds that—

(1) low-level lead poisoning is widespread among American
children, afflicting as many as 3,000,000 children under age
6, with minority and low-income communities disproportion-
ately affected;

(2) at low levels, lead poisoning in children causes intel-
ligence quotient deficiencies, reading and learning disabilities,
impaired hearing, reduced attention span, hyperactivity, and
behavior problems;

(3) pre-1980 American housing stock contains more than
3,000,000 tons of lead in the form of lead-based paint, with
the vast majority of homes built before 1950 containing substan-
tial amounts of lead-based paint;

(4) the ingestion of household dust containing lead from
deteriorating or abraded lead-based paint is the most common
cause of lead poisoning in children;

(5) the health and development of children living in as
many as 3,800,000 American homes is endangered by chipping
or peeling lead paint, or excessive amounts of lead-contami-
nated dust in their homes;

(6) the danger posed by lead-based paint hazards can be
reduced by abating lead-based paint or by taking interim meas-
ures to prevent paint deterioration and limit children's exposure
to lead dust and chips;

(7) despite the enactment of laws in the early 1970's requir-
ing the Federal Government to eliminate as far as practicable
lead-based paint hazards in federally owned, assisted, and
insured housing, the Federal response to this national crisis
remains severely limited; and

(8) the Federal Government must take a leadership role
in building the infrastructure—including an informed public,
State and local delivery systems, certified inspectors, contrac-
tors, and laboratories, trained workers, and available financing
and insurance—necessary to ensure that the national goal of
eliminating lead-based paint hazards in housing can be
achieved as expeditiously as possible.

SEC. 1003. PURPOSES.

The purposes of this Act are—

(1) to develop a national strategy to build the infrastructure
necessary to eliminate lead-based paint hazards in all housing
as expeditiously as possible;

42 USC 4851
note.

42 USC 4851.

42 USC 4851a.